The Once & Future Witch Hunt Lib/E: A Descendant's Reckoning from Salem to the Present

As the descendant of Martha Carrier, an accused woman executed at Salem, Alice Markham-Cantor presents a riveting story that spans centuries and brings the historical significance of the witch trials into modern times. Extensively researched and told through alternating fiction and nonfiction chapters, this book illuminates a shocking truth: contrary to popular opinion, the witch hunts never ended. Alice shares research that suggests tens of thousands of witch hunt-related deaths have happened all over the world in the last thirty years. The Once & Future Witch Hunt also features tantalizing glimpses into Alice's ancestors' lives and reimagines the trials through fact-based fiction. At the intersection of witchcraft, feminism, anthropology, and history, this book gives us as authentic a retelling as may ever be possible while trying to answer that single, irrepressible question: how could this have happened?

About the Author :
Alice Markham-Cantor is a writer and fact-checker from Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been published in New York magazine, Scientific American, The Nation, and elsewhere. She serves on the working committee of the International Network Against Accusations of Witchcraft and Associated Harmful Practices (TINAAWAHP), and she spoke at the first and second Feminist Conferences on the Witch Hunts hosted by the Campana por la Memoria de las Brujas in Spain. She is the writer and coproducer of A Witch Story, an award-winning documentary about Salem and her research. Rebecca Gallagher is a multiple Audie Award-nominated narrator who has recorded over 100 titles with her warm and inviting voice. She enjoys working in a variety of genres, including memoir, mystery, humor, and inspirational. Having met her husband while performing in local theater, they enjoy working together as narrators, including the occasional dual narration projects. When she isn't behind the mic, Rebecca enjoys creating in a variety of media as a visual artist in her home studio. She lives just outside of Chicago with her husband, Dean, and their two daughters. Silvia Federici is a New York-based scholar, teacher, and feminist who wrote Caliban and the Witch. She is a professor emerita and teaching fellow at Hofstra University in New York State, where she was a social science professor. She also taught at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. Rebecca Traister is an American author and journalist. Traister is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and its website The Cut, and she is a contributing editor at Elle magazine. Traister is the author of New York Times bestseller Good and Mad. Visit her at rebeccatraister.com.